Loading...
The Wingham Advance-Times, 1947-07-24, Page 1LIONS CARNIVAL WELL ATTENDED Ball Games, Midway and Games Provided Entertainment The three day carnival sponsored by 'the Wingham Lions Club, even while Obandicapped by rainy weather, drew large crowds, especially Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, The Midway with its Ferris Wheel, erry-Go-Round, Car-ride, and Loop-O- Plane provided entertainment for the, younger crowd and some not so young. Bingo aid other games were also well patronized. Each evening was started„ with a softball game, Monday evening, Luck- -now and Wingham met with the local boys winning 9-0, Tuesday the Ripley Flyers defeated the Brussels girls 7-5, and on Wednesday the Belgrave All- Stars won a close decision of 5-4 over Londesboro. ROliAL LOVERS TAKE A STROLL turntezilit With Which Is Amalgamated The 0,orrie Vidette and Wroxeter News Single Copies Five Cents. WINGHAM, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1947 Subscriptions $2,00 per rear • 1II0 TAKES THE BLAME FOR ERROR? In last week's issue in repoiling the Lions. Club financial statement, one item was incorrect, Wingham Bank donation $500.00, this should have read Wingham Band. The treasurer of the Club, being the Manager of one 9f our local banks, felt that it was very un- complimentary to say that the Lions -made a donation to the Bank. We checked our copy and fcund that we had followed it to the letter. ' We then questioned the bank stenogra- pher and we think we found the ans- -wen Bankers, lawyers and professional -men (we don't think this libeloui) are noted for hand writing, that no per- son, except themselves, can under- stand, and the error of last week we believe can be possibly traced to this fault. VIE PLAN A HOLIDAY This Year The Advance-Times will lake a holiday for one week from 1Thursday, July 31st, to Wednesday, August 6th, inclusive, and there will be zno paper printed August 6th. In order -that all may enjoy the holiday the of- :, fice will be closed. Those who may be needing job printing done would be .-advised to get their orders in early to -ensure 'delivery before closing. BINGO! BINGO! LEGION Bingo Saturday nights at -the Town Hall.- Good Prizes. Meet .your friends Saturday nights at the Legion Bingo. Face Badly Cut Leonard Cook met' with a very pain- Sul accident while helping his son, Russell, cut wood with a circular saw at their farm home on con. 5; East Wawanosh. A stick of wood flew from the saw, striking Mr. Cook in the mouth and making a nasty gash. He was taken to Blyth, where Dr. Draper dressed the wound, which took eight stitches to close. Mr. Cook's face is al- so badly bruised. WINN HURONS DEFEAT CENTRALIA Collecting twenty-four hits here on Thursday evening, the Wingham Hur- ons outclassed' the Centralia Flyers 27-13 in a Men's Senior A. scheduled tilt, and by so doing strengthened their standing in the Senior A. loop. Re- ports circulating that the Flyers were the hottest team in the league to beat prior to this game dispelled that fact as they provided fans with the worst exhibition of ball this season. The locals staged a field day in the second inning, garnering thirteen runs off ten hits, 2 walks and four errors, Both teams had three home runs to their credit, Foster, Jardine and Hopper, for the locals and Jandrey, White and Rhude equalled the feat for the visit-. ors, Jardine on the mound'in five inn- ings of play set the flyers down with one hit, McLeod relieving in the sixth was nicked for ten hits, the flyers rallying to score twelve runs in the sixth and seventh inning, Wirigharri-Foster cf, Ward If, Alt-, chison 2b, Groves e, Niergarth ss, Jar- dine p, Gardner 36, Templemati Scott 1b, Hopper, Lediett, McLeod and Higgins relieved in the fifth, Hop- -per 11, Lediett 3b, ,McLeod p, gins rf, Templetnan c, Centralia RCAF---.Joudrey rf, White 2b, Coleman ss, Miller lb, Hamilton c, MacDougall lfi Sanderson ef, Ithude 0, Dossalt Centralia ,-- 0 0 0 0 '7 5 0 0•-13 11 5 Wingham -4 is 4 0 0 3 0 2 x,--27 24 5 Casentote. TOM RAFFERTY NAMED CHAIRMAN RED. SHIELD APPEAL Campaign Opens September 15 The Salvation Army, in announcing the dates for -the nation-wide Red Shield Appeal, the S. A,'s annual fi- nancial drive,. as September 15-24th, reports that a new community chair- man has been appointed to handle the Wingham campaign this year. Mr, Tom Rafferty has accepted the honor of Organization Chairman for the dis- trict, and Advance Gifts Chairman and Treasurer is, as in former years, Mr. R. R. Flobden of the Bank of Com- merce. Objective for the district served by the Wingham Corps will be $2,400. Mr. Rafferty, in accepting the Or- ganization Chairmanship for the Red Shield Appeal, said: "This year's cam- paign has an objective slightly higher that: lagt year's, and therefore will re- quire the co-operation of everyone. We would ask you to receive the can- vassers courteously and to give to the best of your ability. The work pf re; habilitation , is a keynote of the Sep- tember , campaign, and .the urgency'. is reflected in the higher objective." Those desirous of making their con- tributions to The Salvation Army in advance of the autumn' drive for wel- fare and service funds, may take them or mail them to Mr, Hobden' at the Bank of Commerce, Wingham, In London Hospital Mrs. Leslie Cunningham of 2nd. line of Morris is at present a patient in Victoria Hospital, London. Goderich Trounces Hurons In a schedule group game ,of soft- ball on Monday evening at Goderich, the Goderich boys trounced the Wing- ham Hurons by the score of 11-1, MiXed Doubles Tourney The Wingham Bowling Club .will hold a Mixed Doubles Tournament on Thursday evening, July 24th., at'.7.30 p.m. Telephone your entry to R. R. Hobden, 57 or 42. Won Lions Scholarship Mary Toftiitg `was sticeeSsful- in winning the $25.00 scholarship donated by the Wingham Lions -Club for general proficiency in the Entrance class of Wingham Public School. Returned From Cadet Camp Six cadets from the, Wingham High School, Stan Hiseler, Bill Lockridge, Fred Reihl, Glen Foxton, Gordon Wcllwood and Clayton Scholtz, re- turned last week from a week's train- ing at Camp Ipperwash. Engagement Announced Mr. and Mrs. Frank PoWell of Turn- berry, announce the engagement of their younger daughter, Frances Irene, to William F. Sturdy, son of Mrs. Sturdy and the late Frank Sturdy. The marriage to take place on August 16th. Ten Mile Swim At C.N.E. Sports competitions attracting, the leading athletes of the United States ahcl Canada as well as from abroad have been a Canadian National Exhib- ition feature for many years. When the Exhibition resumes this year from August 22nd. to Sept, 6th., emphasis will be on aquatic sport. The -track over which Canadian and other records have been broken and re-broken is not available this year. A new $20,000,000 grandstand is being erected .on its site. There will, however, be a diversified progtam of land and water attractions including the renewal of the famous Marathon swims in modified form. Tile management 'announces a' ten-mile swim for melt with $10,000 in prize money and p. five-mile event .for wom- en with cash prizes of $5,000. The foremost professional natators of the continent will compete. PRICES INCREASED FOR HEATING 011,3 Price increases of 2c per gallon for furnace fuel oil and from 1 814c to 2 Vat for stove oils are announced by Imperial Oil Ltd. These result in furnace fuel oil pric- es at eastern points as follows: Mont- real 131/2 e; Toronto 13 814c; for stove oils are: Halifax, 16c, Montreal 16 314e and Toronto 16 314c. Prices for heavy industrial fuel oils are increased front 22c to 49c per bar- rel (35 gals.), according to lOpation and method of delivery, The company said factors that bring about the increases are continuing high costs for crude oil which,had not been wholly reflected prices, and rights OAS for finished products wihch must be imported because of unprecedented detnand; 'higher storage -costs and alto normal freight costs are also necessary to provide increased 'supplies. LEMATT BAKERY BUSINESS SOLD Mr. Athol Purdon Takes Possession August 5th, A business deal has been completed in town with Mr, Athol Purdon, form- erly of Wingham, and who now oper- ates a bakery in Lucknow, purchasing the Leggatt Bakery. The new owner will take possession on August 5th. Mr. and Mrs. Purdon and children, Betty Ann, ,Patsy and Douglas, will move fo town and take' up residence in the apartment above the store. For the present Mr. Pardon 'will operate both businesses. Mr. Gordon Leggatt states that- his plans for the future are yet indefinite. TWO FLOODLIGHT GAMES THIS WEEK Wingham Hurons-will meet the Kin- cardine Softball Team in an hibition game on Thursday evening tinder the floodlights at Om Wingham Town Park. The game is called for 9.30 sharp. Goderich Here Saturday The last scheduled game before the playoffs will be played here on Satur- day evening' at 10 p.m, This shOuld be a thriller as Goderich has defeated Wingham by close scores. Both games will be broadcast over radio station CKNX. Sgt. Malcolm Webster Summer Supply At S. A. Following by two weeks the hur- ried departure of Envoy Wm. Clark for similar reasons, Lieut. Evert Gag- non, Commanding Officer of the local corps of the Salvation Army was call- ed home to Cobalt where his father faced a serious operation. Despite the complication of heart-weakness, Mr. Gagnon is reported to be making slow recovery. Without notice, the Lieu- tenant was obliged to commence his vacation time earlier than. intended due to his father's illness. •The.summer suply, Sgt. Malcolm Webster, arrived last' Week to carry on in charge of the Wingham Corps. In addition to many other accomplish- Ments, Webster carries the 'Army' tra- dition of fine musicianship. As a gift- ed singer, his tenor voice has been heard on the air from Winnipeg, Nor- thern Ontario, Toronto, and last 'week on CKNX. Likewise a pianist of tal- ent, Sgt. Webster is taking his place playing trombone in the Salvation- Ar- my 'Band until his return to college in the fall. Public Library Closed The Wingham Public Library will remain closed this week and next while the librarian, Miss Holloway, enjoys her annual holiday. Suscessful In Honour Law Course Milton Brown, son of Mr, and Mrs. Moses Brown, Centre St., was success- ful in passing his 1st..- year Honour Law Course at Toronto University. Appointed Customs Officer Mr. Mac Groves, formerly of Wing- ham, has accepted. an appointment as Customs and Excise Officer at the Blue Water Brid'ge at Sarnia, Ont Mr. Charles Wilkinson Passes Just as we go to press we learn of the death of Mr, Charles Wilkinson 4:4 Belgrade. Funeral service will be held on Thursday afternoon, WEDDINGS - • Sharpin - McKerCher A quiet but pretty wedding was sot- emnized at the Presbyterian Manse, Wingham, when Mary Margaret Ruth, only slaughter of Mr, and Mrs. Allan McKercher, Jamestown, was united in marriage to Stephen Clark, only.son of Mr. and Mrs, Ward Sharpin, Bluevale, Rev, Alex Nimmo performed the cere, ninny, The !bridal couple was unat- tended. For her wedding the bride wore a white arid mauve -street length Jersey dress with white accessories and car- ried a nosegay arrangement of deep pink carnations. Her travelling cos- tume was a turquoige blue Wool suit With gold railhead -trim slid a black picture hat. They will spend their honeymoon at Lions Head and other northern points, Brownlie Monunlent Shop Wm. BrOwtilie wishes to announce that he is going to handle monuments of all sizes, Temporary shop is on Al- fred St, opposite Brown Bros factory until September 1st,„ when he will be in a new building on Josephine St. Prices will be very reasonable as all work will be done personally. Strolling through the gr6unds of Buckingham. Palace,: Princess Eliza- beth, and her 'future husband, Lieut. Philip iMonntbatten,-make no secret of BAND PROM SUNDAY NICHT "0 Canada, March, "Thunderer", Laura. Overture, "The. Iron Count", King. Waltz, "Chalma", Bennett. March, "Mighty. Monarch", Talbot, . Overture, "The Champion", South- well, March,•"Fame anti Fortune", Talbot. Hymn, "Lead Kindly Light", Selection, "Operatic Mingle", Berry. March, "Friendship" Talbot. Overture, "Golden Crescent" Miller. March, "Minstrel Man", Talbot, Hymn, "Abide With Me "God Save the King". CIVIC HOLIDAY MONDAY, AUGUST 4th The Wingham Town Council at their last regular session passed by motion that Monday, August 4th., be observed as Civic Holiday for Wing- barn. Mayor Kennedy has issued a proclamation to this effect and each and all good citizens to observe the same, EAST WAWANOS11 COUNCIL The Council met on July 8th„ with all members present. The minutes of the -previous meeting were read and ap- proved oft motion of Councillors Black and Ireland, The Clerk was instructed to inter- view Mr, Simon Hallahan re account of Mk. Geo, Radford and report to Council at next meeting. Mr. George Johnston reported the loss of a flock of chickens by dogs: Motion, Councillors Ruddy and Robertson that By-law No. 6, 1947, under Live Stock Protection Act be given 'final reading and passed, Car- ried. The following accounts were ordered to be paid: Chas, Robinson, spraying wages, $158.08; Belgrave Co-Opera- tive, spraying, gas, $27.47; Advance- Times, advertising, $3.66; S. Marks, disposing of dead animal, $5.00; R. R. Redmond, part salary $200,00; Ivan Bean, refund dog tax, (1946), $2.00; Stuart McBurney, salary, $173.00; Heron Irwin, checking gravel, $42.50; Jim Irwin, culverts, $10.50; Reg Sch- ultz, checking.gravel, $8000; Gordon Snell, brushing, $17.00; Wilfred culverts, $5,00 ;Dona. Rd. Mach, Co., edges $13.04; Canadian Oil Co„ gas, $59,88; Arnico Drainage Co, Ati. vats, $589,68; Advance-Times, road- signs, $5,04; Harold Iterr, balldosing 0476.09; Dave Murray, Welding $2.50; Geo. Radford, ditching, $80.00; W. A. Currie, gravel, $9.25; Win, Govier, gravel, $102,75; Gordon Maturney, gravel, $106.25; Joe Xert, crushing and trucking $2539;78,* Council adjourned to meet on Aug- ust 5th. R. R. Redmond, Clerk, their happiness following announce- ment of their engagement by King George, Her three diamond. engage- ment ring may be seen on'the left hand of the princess, BUSY VICTORIA ST, IN EARLY SEVENTIES Citizens of Wingham today cannot visualize Victoria Street as a busy bus- iness district of the town, But in the earliest of the 1870's much of the town's trade was done on that thor- oughfare.. It is just -possible that some places may be overlooked in this sum- mary, as it is all enumerated from meniory by an old-timer. The Exchange Hotel was at the cor- ner of Josephine and Victofia Streets, with the entrance to the big barn from Victoria Street, Kirkby's Bakery, where once you could buy a single loaf at 5 cents or a double loaf at 10 cents. The Times printing office, owned by the late R, A. Graham, members of whose family are still resident here. This was Wingham's first newspaper. The Advance printing office, Started by C. Cliffe of Kincardine, and pub- lished by the late James Plenty. Thomas Abraham's shoe shop, where top boots or boots of any kind were made to measure. Factory boots were almost unknown. Robinson's grocery and, liquor store; groceries on one side and barrels of various kinds of liquor on the oppOsite side, with whisky at 25 cents a gallon. The Bank of St. Lawrence, the first financial institution in the town, Davidson's butcher shop, with James Davidson as Constable. Thomas, Lillingslty, watchmaker. Frank Patterson's blacksmith shop. Ritchie's carriage factory, near the corner of Scott Street and . Victoria S. Dodd's primp factory. ThomaS Price's shoe shop, built on the rider bank, where the town never collected any taxes. Starting again from Josephine Street was Kent & Willson's general store on the corner, torn down to be replaced by the present three-storey Kent block, Mooney's tinshop. Langdale's photo gallery. Grocery store in the stone building, corner of Edward Street. John Barkley's tailor shop on the opposite corner, Miss Wilkinson, dressmaker. R, M, Robinson's foundry, one of the chief industries of the town. The Post Office, at the corner of Leopold Street. The Presbyterian Church, destroyed by fire. Flack's tannery, near the Maitland Rivet. Bowling Singles Postponed The Singles Tournament for the Hamilton Optical Co. Trophy was called off last Wednesday owing to rain. A new date has been set for the event, Wednesday, August 20th, Beaver Lumber Co., Closing Notice Beaver Lumber Co. Yards and Office will be closed front July 28th, to August 5th., inclusive. N. A. Mc- Leod, Manager. INSTITUTE HEAR INTERESTING .TALK Mrs. H. Campbell Gave Descriptive Travelogue on Canada Those members of the WI who attended the July meeting of their So- ciety's local branch were fortunate in- deed to be the audience of such a de- lightful programme, Before the prograrlime got underway the business portion was concluded, The main item was the signing of sufficient members for the Blue CroSs Hospital Plan to accept them as a group for hospitalization benefits in the Society, Besides two much appreciated songs by Mr. Burton, and community sing- ing, Mrs. H. Campbell gave air address. As we- have mentioned before, a pro- gram schedule is prepared at the be- ginning of the Institute year. July being the birth-month of our country, the subject was "Canadd", and the writer suspects that the committee in charge chose Mrs. Campbell purposely, because of her first-hand knowledge. Mrs. Campbell did not speak of Can- ada politically, industrially or finan- cially; she did not use any glib phrases to inform us (as if we didn't know) of Canada's war effort or of her; ever-in- creasing importance internationally, but she did speak in such a way that we forgot , ourselves and travelled with her from Cape Breton Island to Van- couver Island and up to Prince Rup- ert and on to the Yukon. Strangely we even forgot to admire our newly dec- orated Council Chamber - we do tins every meeting. But not this time! Instead we saw Cape Breton's coal mines, Prince Edward Island's Fox Farms, Quebec's Habitant, Ontario's play grounds and forests, the endless golden prairies,' the lovely National Parks of• the Rockies, Stanley Park of Vancouver, and many, many other beauty spats and .places of importance which were only geographical names to us. Our English language abounds in descriptive words and it was a treat to hear Mrs. Campbell make such fluent use of dozens of them, in clear, soft-spoken phrases. We were sorry indeed when she had finished and we found ourselves back in Wingham, but the writer is sure we enjoyed ourselves much - more than listening to some professional travel- ogue addresses, Many, many thanks Mrs. Campbell! RETURNED TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLAND Tht following clipping was received by Mr. Geo. T. Robertson from his brother, James, of Seattle, Wash., who will be remembered by many in this district, his wife is the former Carrie McGee of East Wawanosh. The item refers to his niece. Lahaina, Maui-Diane Caroline Ro- bertson, 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Robertson, arrived in Hono- lulu on her way home to Lahaina. Miss 'Diane went to Seattle last Aug- ust with her aunt, Miss Mildred Rob- ertson, and has been visiting with her Robertson and attending school there, She was selected by the Children of the American Revolution to place the wreath on the statue of George Washington at the annual celebration at the University of Washington, Bowled At Seaforth, Five pairs of Wingham Bowlers at- tended the Mixed Doubles tournament at Seaforth on Monday evening. We understapd there were no local win- ners. • Bruised Hip In Fall • Last Tuesday 'evening Mrs. Alex Reid had the misfortune to trip and fall in a sand pile at the rear of her home, She was . taken to the Wing- ham Hospital for an X-ray, and we are pleased to report no bones were brok- en, OTTAWA SURPLUS QUARTER MILLION A surplus of $290;586,106 in gov- ernmental financial operations for the first quarter of the current fiscal year was reported by B. G, McIntyre, comptroller of the treasury, in his Ap- ril-through,-June -accounting, Expenditures for the period totalled $431,198,222 against revenue collec- tions of $721,734,328, The fattest quarterly surplus in Can- ada's fiscal history the excess cane within $60,000,000 of the record $350,- 000,000 surplus piled up for all of last year. That unprecedented surplus brew& tax relief in this year's budget womb $160,000,000, The $290,566406 surplus compared with a surplus of '$56,811,947 in the corteSponiitig quarter of _last year when, revenues were $684,252,047 and expenditures $627,435,000, FIRE DESTROYS OIL TANK AT CLIFFORD -About. 2.15 Monday afternoon fire broke out in. the fuel oil storage yards of the Smith Storage Co. at Clifford, which are situated close to the Canad- ian National Railway Station. The fire was caused when Orlando Schmidt, an employee, went into the pump house- and started the pump engine in pre- paration to filling his truck with fuel oil, and the engine backfired. Mr. Schmidt was badly burned about the hands and his clothes were ignited, but bystanders managed to extinguish the flames. The 'lire was confined to a 50Q gal, Ion storage tank of fuel oil and the pump house, both of which were com- pletely destroyed. The tank was sur- rounded by three other tanks contain- ing 15,000 gallons of gasoline, but for- tunately these were not ignited. It was just a year ago that Clifford had its last fire at that time the home of Mr. George Whitehouse was burned to the ground. PROVINCIAL POLICE TO TAKE OVER COUNTY Information of the inauguration of Ontario Provincial Polide system in Huron County, was given in a report of the police committee of county council at Goderich. The OPP offi- cers take over their duties August 1st. Warden Brown Smyth and Chair- man, Cecil Wheeler of the police corn- ittee had interviewed the police com- missioner at Toronto and had been assured that the county would be ad- equately policed 'by the province, should it be decided to dispense with county .constablesa at no cost to the county. County constables had beers by the committee that it was not be- cause of any inefficiency on their work that the decision was made to make the changeover, but rather to effect a saving to the ratepayers of $11,000. The county constables were promised assistance would be given to- have them absorbed in the provincial force. HAVE YOU ANY NEWS? The Advance-Times is anxious to receive and publish all the news of the district, We WOnlel aak that those who, have news items would send them in. We are anxious to publish the names of your visitors, or any of the interest- ing happenings in your community. We cannot know all that is going on, and we have always regarded The Ad- vance-Times as a community ,news- paper and for the combined interests of the town and district it serves. We would appreciate any news that can be sent in, either by letter or by tele- phone. ,Aks:-;re • '1 Suffered Stroke Mr. David Halliday, Minnie St., suf- fered a stroke Wednesday evening of last week and is now a patient in the Wingham General Hospital. Witnessed Golf Championship Messrs, J. H, Crawford„-i. P. iMc- Kilybon, H. C. MacLean and C. H. Mc- Avoy, were in Toronto one day last week witnessing the play for the Can- adian Open Golf Championship. Engagement Announced • Mr. and Mrs. J. V, Haines, Wing- ham, wish to announce the engagement of their eldest daughter, Margaret Olivia, to Mr. Roy Edward Bennett, son of Mr. and 'Mrs. C. AL Bennett, Wingham. The marriage to take place August 16th,, at 12 o'clock noon, in Wingham United Church. COMPULSORY SAVINGS REFUND NEXT YEAR The Government has prepared plans to pay back compulsory wartime sav- ings which were deducted along with income tax, Finance Minister Abbott said in the Commons last week, but the first instalment of them will ad- mittedly be on trial and error basis and a lot of cheeks will undoubtedly go to wrong addresses, Replying to requests by Stanley IC-armies, (C.C.P., Winnipeg North Centre) and John Dieftnbaker (P.C., Lake Centre) that the payments. be Made as quickly as possible and even in one lump sum, the minister said the. Government ,would pay back the first year's amotints in 1948 but the other two years would have to wait until lat- er, The -cheques that go out will pay back sums -deducted in 1942, 1043 ant 1044, The minister said the Govern. tnetit would -consider whether the last two years' amounts could be paid tit Once itt 1949. 41i